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The 1981
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![]() Jan. 8, 1981; Trans-en-Provence, France Map of sightings for 1981, courtesy of Larry Hatch's "U" Database (Pending) Created: Dec. 15, 2007; updated 19 Dec. 2011 This is currently a 14-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1981. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to Richard Hall (the original 1981 chronology from UFOE II), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID]). You will note the many foreign reports that we are now being able to access. Our special thanks to Dan Wilson for getting those to us. As more come in, this page will be updated. Previous chronologies (1947 to 1969) involved the expertise of two other team members: William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive) and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Francis Ridge NICAP Site Coordinator The 1981 UFO Chronology ___________________________________________________________________________________ Jan. 6, 1981; Payson, AZ
Four silvery discs executed turns, maneuvers, in a diamond formation. Objects flashed in sunlight as they turned, crossed western sky (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Sections V, X). Jan. 8, 1981;
Trans-en-Provence, France
5:00 PM. Perhaps the best documented and most
thoroughly
investigated case of physical effects from a UFO
occurred on this day
in Trans-en-Provence, France. At five p.m. Mr.
Nicolai, a gardener, saw
a metallic disc-shaped object making a whistling sound
land hard in a
garden. It was estimated to be eight feet by six feet
in size, and had
four openings on the underside. It also had a thick
band around the
middle section of the object. The case quickly came to
the attention of
the police and was soon investigated by GEPAN, the
French government's
scientific team of UFO investigators. The physical
traces included
evidence of vegetation and soil heating, skid marks,
and circular
ground marks. The chemical analysis revealed that the
soil had been
heated to temperatures not in excess of 600 degrees
Celsius. (Source:
Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search
for Alien Contact,
p. 104).
Jan. 8, 1981; near Flinders Island, Tasmania
11:00 PM. On a boat near Flinders Island two
men saw two
nocturnal lights exchange light beams. The sea was
illuminated by the
UFO display, and the batteries on board the boat
were found to be dead.
(Source: UFO Research Australia Newsletter, May
1982, p. 7 citing
Tasmania UFO Investigation Centre, report dated
March 6, 1982).
Jan. 9-March 7, 1981; N. California
Local concentration of sightings (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section VIII). Jan. 13, 1981; Halt doc,
Good,
456
Jan. 25, 1981; Chatsworth, CA
Hovering cigar or spindle-shaped object, disc with dome, darting motions, numerous photographs taken (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section VII). January 28, 1981; Colle Maddalena, Italy
5:30 AM. A disc was sighted maneuvering over some woods
and landing
behind some trees in Colle Maddalena, Italy. A burnt
circle of grass
and some charred tree branches were found at the landing
site. (Source:
ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue).Feb. 1981; Quindira Brazil
2:00 AM. A woman was awakened by a loud engine type
noise
coming from outside, she ran out and watched a round
object hovering
nearby and emitting multi-colored beams of light. Three
human like
beings cold be clearly seen inside, one them glanced
briefly at the
witness then the object rose and disappeared. The next
day two dead
bloodless horses were found on the field where the
object had hovered.
(HC addition # 1383, Source: National Enquirer UFO
Report Type: A)Feb. 3, 1981; Ross, Tasmania
9:40 PM. A luminous ovoid object maneuvered at 30
meters
altitude in Ross, Tasmania and paced a car. When the
car approached a
hotel, it shot straight up and out of sight. (Source:
Keith Roberts,
UFO Research Australia Newsletter, May 1982, p. 6).
Feb. 9, 1981; San Jose, CA
Red-lighted object made pass at aircraft, instant relocation; "very tight turns," hovered, accelerated away at "extremely high rate of speed." (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section I). Feb.10, 1981; Auburn, WA
11:35 PM. The witness had parked her car in her
apartment
parking lot when she saw a huge lighted object with
a ring of flashing
lights. The UFO left but a second smaller craft
appeared and descended
with a falling leaf motion. The witness ran to her
apartment and
apparently blacked out. Under hypnosis she recalled
that a light shone
on her and she suddenly found herself in a domed
room with smooth white
floors, walls and ceiling. The room contained a
desk-like object with
lights and an examination table. She undressed and
two beings entered,
held her by her arms and pressed her down on the
table. A third being
examined her abdomen. The beings were humanoid with
light bulb shaped
heads and with large unblinking eyes, small noses
and ears, and
slit-like mouths. They were thin with sloping
shoulders, long hanging
arms with 4 long fingers and had grayish skin. They
wore metallic blue
coverall uniforms with an insignia of a triangle
inside a circle on the
chest. Another being wore a reddish orange colored
uniform. They
conversed with the witness by using telepathy.
(Source: Thomas E
Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of A Mystery;
Albert S. Rosales,
Humanoid Contact Database, case # 463).
Feb. 13, 1981; Fuentecen Spain
2:30 AM. The witness had finished closing up his
canteen, which
was connected to his ranch house and was walking back
to the house when
he observed several golden lights on a nearby field.
He approached the
lights but these suddenly rose up, circled, and landed
again, this time
closer to his home. The witness went inside and woke
his wife and son,
they then all observed an object on the ground that
gave off bright
flashes of light at times. At the same time his dogs
were going
berserk. His wife became frightened and went to bed.
Later he heard
footsteps and his dog attracted him to a "figure"
standing by the
fence. The figure was a meter and a half tall, square
in shape and
metallic almost robotic in nature; it lacked a head,
arms or feet. The
dog approached the figure and began barking, and then
both witnesses
heard a strange barking "echo" that seem to come from
the figure
itself. The witness grabbed a flashlight and ran out,
he then heard a
loud "crackling" sound. The figure by now had
disappeared; he then saw
an object with rotating red lights rise from a nearby
field and leave
at high speed. A scorched area was found on the ground
by government
authorities. (HC addition # 641, Source: J J Benitez,
La Quinta
Columna, Type: C)Feb. 14, 1981; Greensburg, PA
1:45 AM. A 17-year old girl was baby-sitting when
she spotted
an object hovering at treetop level about 50 feet
away. The object was
silent and had three white lights forming the point
of an equilateral
triangle. It appeared to be a triangular object made
out of a dark
colored metal. Above one of the lights there was a
large transparent
window, separated by thin metallic-like partitions.
A dull beam of
light descended slowly from the object's bottom and
to the ground.
Inside the craft two humanoid beings could be seen.
These were
described as having very large heads, oriental like
eyes, gill like
ears, and two holes instead of a nose. One appeared
to be sitting and
the other standing behind an instrument panel. The
panel was white and
had several black and grayish circular controls. The
humanoid that was
standing had a long thin neck, smooth white skin,
and normal looking
arms; he stared at the witness with pupil-less white
eyes. The witness
became spellbound and felt compelled to stare at the
beings for 15
minutes, she then reluctantly went back to the
living room and did not
see the object depart. (HC addition # 724 Source:
Bob Gribble,
Mufon Journal # 274,Type: A)Feb.15, 1981; Franklin, OH
2:00 AM. A brilliant white light that began
filling her room
awakened the witness. She got out of bed and
through her window saw a
bright hovering disc shaped object. Under hypnosis
she recalled being
taken onboard by several seven-foot tall humanoids
with pointed chins
and yellow cat like eyes. She was examined onboard
and was told by the
aliens that they had come from a planet called
"Antares." (HC addition
# 1092, Source: Brad Steiger, The UFO Abductors,
Type: G)Feb.18, 1981; Manzano Amargo, Neuquen Province,
Argentina
4:00 AM. Jose Fermin Albornoz, an illiterate
shepherd, awoke
at 4:00 a.m. to the sounds of his animals causing a
commotion. Looking
out from his hut he saw a "beautiful" blue light
hovering over a field
about 20 meters away. He woke up another shepherd,
but his companion
became extremely afraid, screamed out and hid under
his blanket. He
then heard a loud buzzing sound that appeared to
originate from
overhead. This was followed by something like the
sound of a diesel
truck, although the remote mountainous area of
Manzano Amargo, Neuquen
Province, Argentina that they were in was only
accessible by horseback.
Suddenly two short humanoid entities appeared out of
nowhere, standing
side by side. The beings spoke to him in an unknown,
unintelligible
language. Terrified, Jose now became confused and
his next memory was
of seeing a bright light quickly flying away. He
described the
humanoids as about one meter in height with
extremely wide shoulders.
They seemed to have normal hands and feet, but he
could not make out
any facial features. They wore helmets and tight
fitting, dark blue
outfits. During the incident some nearby horses
stampeded away from the
area, apparently terrified. Albornoz said the
spherical light was
bluish in color, and it did not illuminate the
surroundings. (Source:
Carlos Ferguson, UNICAT database, case 463).
Feb. 25, 1981; northwest of Tallinn, Estonia
9:24 PM. An Aeroflot YAK-40 airliner flying northwest
of Tallinn,
Estonia was paced by two orange, elongated objects at
9:24 p.m. The
UFOs flew parallel to the plane and then approached
from 70 degrees to
the right. The crew saw four orange lights on the
first object and 3
lights on the other one. After three minutes the first
object executed
a turn to the right, then to the left. The second
object repeated the
maneuver and followed after the first some six to
eight minutes later.
(Source: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of
Multiple UFO, p.
176).March 1981; Birstall West Yorkshire, England
Late night, Jane Murphy had gone to bed late when
she suddenly
woke up standing in a field feeling very cold and
wet. She then noticed
a huge metallic object hovering over the field,
suddenly a group of
figures, as many as 10 approached her. The figures
were vaguely
humanoid, but for some reason Jane could not focus
on them. One of the
figures had a cloth in his hand and put it over the
witness face. She
pretended to be unconscious but they injected her
and she blacked out.
When she woke up she was on a bed in a strange room.
Several figures
were around her communicating via telepathy telling
her to look at
them. One of the entities was seven-foot tall, human
looking with
totally black eyes. She was told to bathe and then
entered a plastic
looking object that fitted around her taking the
shape of her body. She
was then helped back on to the table in the center
of the room and now
noticed that all but the tall humanoid with the
black eyes had left the
room. The tall being proceeded to lie on top of her
and have sexual
intercourse in a very unemotional manner. After
awhile the tall
humanoid left the room while, others, including
female humanoids had
now entered the room. She was then given an
extensive gynecological
examination. Later she was shown a table covered
with a number of
brightly colored pills of geometric shapes and was
invited to take one.
She was given a tour of the ship where she saw other
humans. Her next
recollection was waking up back in her bed. She was
plagued for the
next three months with a strange vaginal infection.
(HC addition #
1992, Source: Carl Nagaitis, Philip Mantle, Without
Consent, Type:
G)March 1981; Near Algeciras, Spain
10:30 AM. A truck driver was delivering produce to a
nearby
village when he noticed strange lights on a nearby
field behind a row
of eucalyptus trees. He then drove his truck off the
road and got out
to investigate. As the witness entered the field he
spotted a large
metallic dome shaped craft on the ground about 50
yards away. The
object seemed to be supported by three "telescopic"
legs like
protrusions. It had three large round windows on the
front. As he
attempted to approach there was a brilliant flash
form the top of the
craft that struck him, causing extreme head pain and
partial paralysis.
He then noticed several man-like figures sitting
behind the windows,
these were human like, wore helmets and brown
uniforms. They started
intensively at the witness, who every time he
attempted to approach he
would get struck by a flash of light that would
paralyze him for a few
moments. At one point a ladder was lowered from the
object but no one
came out. The craft finally left silently at high
speed. It first
retracted the telescopic legs then shot away. Some
ground traces were
found on the site. (HC addition # 683, Source: J J
Benitez, La Punta
Del Iceberg, Type: A)March, 1981; Memphis, TN 4:40 PM. 5-min duration, two witnesses. Responsible woman, secretary in an executive office, was out driving, which she said was most unusual for her. She had intended to stop for coffee when she sees three shining objects in the sky, and so engrossed in them drives right past the local Pancake House. Suddenly the objects disappear into "what looked like puffs of smoke." A minute later one reappears "directly over the street in front of me, so close that I could have counted the lights on the bottom of the object, had I not panicked." She turns into the parking lot of the nearby Admiral Benbow Inn, rushes to the door and summons the night watchman. He also sees the object. She would not go back outside but the watchman observed it hover over her car and rise above the inn. Sighting was reported to police. (IUR-3,5) March 10, 1981; near Skipton, North Yorkshire,
England
At Carleton Moors, two uniformed police officers
observed a
large glowing oval shaped UFO as it moved over the
moors. (Source:
Yorkshire Post, The 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT
2006 by Detective
Constable 1877 HESELTINE British Transport Police).March 30, 1981; Magny, France
11:20 AM. A metallic sphere descended from the
sky at a
45º angle and stopped over a house in Magny,
France. It then shot
straight up and away. A check with authorities
showed there were no
scheduled balloon releases at that time. (Source:
Lumieres dans la
Nuit, October 1981).
March 30, 1981; Alton, IL 10:00 PM. Huge bright light went to very dim, had lights on the bottom as it hovered over trees for ten minutes. Object moved towards witnesses at about 10 mph. Frogs stopped croaking and dogs began barking excitedly. Then it was right over the two witnesses. Object appeared circular and was black except for the lights on the circumference. The most unusual thing (other than the fact the object was noiseless) was a large circular opening in the bottom of the black disc. Inside the opening they saw "this churning motion of bright white light with yellow and orange colors in it...like gases rolling around in there." The UFO was more oval than round in shape, and was smooth-edged. After about 20-30 minutes the object took off rapidly. Shortly thereafter a jet flew over, and shortly after that another similar UFO was observed coming across the trees a good five minutes later with the same results. (IUR-3,5) April,
1981;
Peking, China, drawing
Drawing of an object seen over Peking in April 1981, identical to a UFO seen over London in December 1980 (UFOs over Modern China by Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens) April 1, 1981; Mount Vernon, OR
7:30 PM. The main witness and a friend were driving back
home
when they noticed three bright lights above the highway.
As they
approached the top of a hill another larger light
appeared. The witness
pulled off to the side of the road and then saw a huge
lighted bowl
shaped object. They both attempted to leave the area but
they
apparently went into a trance and lost consciousness.
The next thing
they remembered was sitting in their vehicle and
noticing something
moving quickly away from the car, moments later a flash
of light shot
up into the sky. Later under hypnosis the main witness
remembered the
object hovering over the car and engulfing it in white
light. Several
beings now appeared in front of the car. The beings were
described as
about five-foot two inches tall, with large hairless
heads, gray white
skin and huge dark almond shaped eyes. They appeared to
be frail and
had long thin arms. Both men were then invited onboard
the object and
entered through a triangle-shaped doorway. They were
then led in
different directions. The main witness was taken to a
room and examined
on a thick table consisting of solid light. He remembers
one of the
beings sitting at a console with a screen and looking at
what he
thought was the space shuttle Columbia orbiting the
earth. (Columbia
was in fact launched on April 2. For some reason the
witness was left
with the clear impression that these beings had the
ability to travel
through time.) (HC addition # 1176, Source: Aileen
Edwards, On The
UFO Road Again, Type: G)April 8, 1981; San Luis Reservoir, Merced County,
CA
3:00 AM. The complete failure of an aircraft's
electronics,
including the transponder, DME, navigation equipment,
and two-way
radios, occurred when a bullet-shaped UFO passed
within 500 feet of an
airplane being flown by Mr. Dennis, a flight
instructor, while flying
over San Luis Reservoir, Merced County, California at
3:00 a.m. The
electronics recovered after the UFO had gone. The
object was described
as 35-50 in length, with a pulsating orange front end,
and having a
blue ring perpendicular to the craft. The object was
said to be
whirling, and made an instantaneous 90 degree turn.
(Sources: J. Allen
Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 6;
UNICAT database,
citing Tom Page, case 34; Dominique Weinstein,
Aircraft UFO Encounters,
p. 43).
April 12, 1981; Goodhue, MN
Two-foot diameter aluminum-like disc hovered a few feet off road about 40 feet away; climbed rapidly through sky and disappeared in distance (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section IV). Between April 15 to 20, 1981; Catania, Sicily,
Italy
12:20 AM. Two police officers in their car saw a
strong reddish
light descending from the sky. The engine and
electrical components to
their vehicle become inoperative as a saucer about 3 m
in diameter and
1 m in height lands on the street about 50 meters away
from their
vehicle. A small door opened on the saucer and the
witnesses see two
human forms emerge; the figures began gesticulating
and "jumping"
around. In the place of their eyes they have balls of
light, and sparks
around their head and hands. The head, compared to the
rest of the body
appears to be large. After a few minutes the beings
appeared to
converse among themselves. Then the entities jump into
their saucer,
and the door closes. A few seconds later the saucer
rotates four times
and accelerates up into the sky emitting a very loud
noise, it quickly
disappears from sight. At this point the shocked
agents are able to
start their vehicle and leave the area. (HC addendum,
Source: CISU,
UFO Notizie # 48)April 15, 1981; Mount Sunapee, NH
7:25 PM. A huge metallic triangular object with
several red
lights on the sides and very bright white light on
the leading edge
flew over Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire. It flew very
low to the ground,
and passed over a car flying off to the west.
(Source: Philip J.
Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 24).
April 20, 1981; Reno, NV
Small, shiny object below private plane; object fluttered or tilted, accelerated rapidly, sped away (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Sections III, IX). May 1981; Mennecy, France
3:00 AM. Traveling on a road, 3 women, 34-year old
Sandra,
Viviane and Marie France see a horizontal orange
cigar-shaped object,
hovering on the right side of the road. As they drove
to the top of the
hill the cigar vanishes. Soon a white sphere follows
their vehicle. The
cigar appeared to have black dot-like openings. Later
under hypnosis
Sandra remembered seeing humanoids inside the object,
described as of
normal size, elongated eyes, thin bodies and wearing
white coveralls
from head to toes. (HC addendum, Source: LDLN # 195) May 1981; Near Toppenish Ridge, Yakima, WA
Late night. The main witness had seen for the past 2 months numerous slow flying UFOs and strange lights over the area. That night she woke up to go to the bathroom and noticed that the electricity was out in the house. She felt a breeze coming from the kitchen area and walked down the hallway calling for her husband. He came to her and stepped around her to shut the kitchen window. She then heard a sound similar to a sewing machine, she turned around and saw the figure of a "feminine appearing" man with small rounded narrow shoulders, a thin head and thick turtle like neck. She could not make out any eyes, legs, or arms. The next thing she remembered was floating through the air over the cornfields behind her house. The last thing she was able to recall was a large whitish discs shaped object with a dome on top hovering above the cornfield. She remembers floating up into the object through an "ultra violet" type of light, her memory then ended. (HC addition # 1632, Source: Greg Long, Examining The Earth Lights Theory They Yakima UFO Microcosm) Type: G? May 1, 1981; Clark County, WA
4:00 AM. A 26-year-old woman reported a large white
glowing
disc-shaped object just 150 feet from her home in
Clark County,
Washington. It made a humming sound and flew off to
the south toward
Oregon. The incident lasted slightly less than a
minute. (Source: Greg
Long, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 16).
May 4, 1981; Minas Gerais state, Brazil
10:40 PM. a bright disc landed on the ground in Belo
Horizonte,
Minas Gerais state, Brazil and then vanished. A witness
felt pulled
toward the spot. Burnt grass was found at the site.
(Source: Bob Pratt,
UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next?
p. 229).May 12, 1981; near Clatskanie, OR
5:00 AM. A man and a woman, a truck driver and a
cashier,
were driving near Clatskanie, Oregon. A large
delta-shaped UFO
surrounded by a turbulent fog or mist "like smoke from
a chimney"
followed their truck for 15 miles. It had a white
light and two orange
lights. As it directed a beam of light at their
vehicle the truck lost
power, and they smelled an odor like antifreeze.
(Source: MUFON UFO
Journal, January 1982, p. 15).
May 14, 1981; in space, from onboard the Soyuz
T-4 spacecraft
Cosmonauts Savinikh and Kovlenok observed a strange
object from
their space station. At first the object was 1/2
mile away but it
eventually approached to a distance to 300 feet.
Inside the cosmonauts
saw three brown skin beings with slanted bright blue
eyes. straight
noses and bushy eyebrows. At a distance of 100 feet,
the witnesses
thought that the beings resembled mechanical robots.
The beings facial
expressions remained quite emotionless. The beings
onboard the object
requested close contact with the Soviet craft but
this request was
denied. Their craft shifted around erratically and
from time to time it
would vanish, but then reappear in an instant. Their
craft seemed to be
metallic, but it had no doors no solar batteries, no
optical systems,
no antennae and no marks or writing of any kind, it
was spherical with
eight windows and 16 other strange transparent
illuminated spheres
arranged throughout the hull. The cosmonauts also
noticed quite normal
looking armchairs, some devices, and walls inside
the craft. Using a
pair of powerful binoculars the cosmonauts saw the
beings showing them
what appeared to have been a star map. (HC addition
# 3252, Source:
Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files)May 16, 1981; near Cocklebiddy, Western
Australia
A couple named Winsome were driving in the
desert when they
noticed a red glowing dome low on the side of the
road. It vanished as
the car approached, but a glowing light flew off
to the west. (Source:
Australian CUFOS Bulletin, August 1981).
June 6, 1981; Little Rock, AR
1:00 AM. Two teenagers in Little Rock saw a small,
four-foot
long rectangular UFO and a small disc cavorting over a
backyard garage
and shed. They came very close and the leaves on some
trees were
withered. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, June 1982, p.
6).
June 12, 1981; near Alice, TX
2:10 PM. Robert Gomez, a vacuum truck driver, was
headed
west on highway FR 665 toward Alice, Texas after
finishing a job. His
vehicle had about 165 gallons of water in the tank and
no pressure. He
saw a bright object in the sky that he first thought
was an airplane.
It increased in brightness and stopped in midair. The
object was domed
disc-shaped, brilliant white in color and with a dark
ring around the
rim and another dark ring around its center. Gomez
felt the truck
slowing down and tried to accelerate. The truck's
exhaust stacks were
blowing smoke, but the truck had apparently been
lifted a foot off the
ground. Although his AM radio quit working, his CB
radio was still
working, so he reported what was happening to his
dispatcher. Shortly
later the UFO disappeared into the clouds. Smoke was
discovered coming
out of the water tank valve, which now showed 55
pounds of pressure on
the gauge. He opened the valve to drain the remaining
water, but only
steam came out. (Sources: Richard Hall, Uninvited
Guests, pp. 313-314;
MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982; Richard H. Hall, The
UFO Evidence,
Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 276).
June 13, 1981; Chia-Li, Taiwan
12:20 AM. A spinning transparent cone, 3 meters in
length,
touched down on the ground in Chia-Li, Taiwan. It
expelled a mist, then
took off and shot away to the north. (Source: Paul
Dong and Wendelle
Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, p. 272).
July 4, 1981; Over Lake Michigan
Major airline L-1011 jumbo jet en route from San Francisco to New York City encountered silvery disc-shaped object (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section III). July 11, 1981; Dunedin, New Zealand
6:15 PM. An elderly woman reported seeing a metallic
football
shaped object on a nearby paddock. It glowed and had a
bright light on
its lower half. Two figures were clearly visible within.
One appeared
to be operating controls at a clear glass cabin on the
front of the
craft, while the other was standing in a central glass
tube, which
extended beyond the top of the object. Both were dressed
in gray
coveralls and were described as having white skin and no
hair. A second
witness later arrived and saw the object and the beings.
(HC addition #
221, Source: Keith Basterfield, Mufon Journal # 177)July 11, 1981;Port Byron, IL 10:30 PM. 5-1/2 mins duration. Girl Scout supervisor at camp headquarters suddenly hears his dog barking in a warning manner. Through the trees that screen the camp swimming pool, he sees the bright lights. Unusual. Someone slipping in for a late night swim would hardly turn on the pool floodlights. The witness moves to an unobstructed view of the pool and notices the pool lights are not on. Instead, directly above the pool, and higher than the regular lights, is a brilliant light. Suddenly the lights go out. He hears a whirring noise that rises in pitch as it apparently rises into the sky. When he turns on the lights he noticed the pump is not running and the water level is down three feet!!!! (IUR-3,6) July 12, 1981; South Canterbury, New Zealand
12:50 AM. Five observers driving in a vehicle,
including a
college professor and a social worker, in South
Canterbury, New Zealand
saw a brightly lit domed disc-shaped craft with
gold, red and green
lights. It paced their car along a back road, making
no sound. The
object had several brightly lit windows and slot
like indentations on
its surface. A heavyset squat figure was seen at one
of the windows.
(Sources: APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 3; Richard
Hall, The UFO
Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 26,
citing the Timaru
Herald, July 31, 1981; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid
Contact Database
1981, case # 2438, citing the MUFON)
July 16, 1981; Near Atcham, Shropshire, England
2:00 AM. Three women were on their way back home on
the A5
expressway when they all suddenly experienced a
strange mood change,
they all sat very quiet going into some type off limbo
state. Then
across an open field besides the road four white and
two red lights
appear. They seemed to be attached to a dark object.
The object was
round and began pacing the vehicle. At this point the
vehicle seem to
lose power and would not accelerate. All the witnesses
panicked and
were somewhat confused when the object and lights
suddenly vanished.
There was an apparent time lapse noted when they
reached their
destination. Later under hypnosis one of the women
recalled the car
being floated up to the sky and entering the bottom of
an object
through two large double doors. She was held down on a
reclining chair
and medically examined by several 4-foot tall figures,
without hair,
deep set dark eyes, very thin arms, and strange noses.
They wore green
cloaks. The second woman only recalled being in a
large room when
several 4-foot tall robot like entities with round
heads, no facial
features and wheel-like feet rolled in, she was not
examined. The third
woman remembers being hit by a beam of light, she felt
pain and floated
into a room, there she encountered two six-foot tall
humanoids, one
male the other female, both wearing green cloaks. They
both had dark
shoulder length hair, vivid blue eyes and extremely
white skin. They
seemed very friendly and appeared intrigued with the
witness clothing.
(HC addition # 526, Source: Jenny Randles, Abduction).July 18, 1981; Patras, Greece
Afternoon. Two students in Patras, Greece took a
photograph
of a silver, saucer-shaped object performing
maneuvers over some nearby
islands. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database,
case 13718).
July 24, 1981; Zigong, Henan Province, China
Evening. A huge silent disc-shaped UFO was
seen for three to
ten minutes by thousands over Ningsia, China. It
flew at a very high
altitude and left a spiral trail. It made no
sound. About ten minutes
later in Qinghai, China a huge lens-shaped disc
with portholes was seen
by thousands. It flew from the northeast to the
southwest. Photographs
of the object were taken, and several drawings
were published. In
Zigong, Henan Province, China at 11:00 p.m.
thousands saw a domed
disc-shaped UFO for up to two hours. (Sources:
Wendell Stevens &
Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 226-227;
Lumieres dans la Nuit,
issue 235; John Wallace Spencer & Hilary
Evans, Phenomenon: Forty
Years of Flying Saucers, p. 62).
July 25, 1981; between Valencia and
Barcelona, Spain
4:00 AM. A bright silver disc with six
round portholes was
seen by the crew of an Iberia B-727 airliner
as it flew between
Valencia and Barcelona, Spain. It appeared
to be reflecting sunlight in
the dawn sky.
July 31, 1981; Lieksa, Finland
Black sphere and satellite lights seen, two approached motorboat, one surrounded by "fog." Paralysis felt, missing time, physiological effects (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section VII). Aug. 1, 1981; Newport, DE (Possibly 1980) 6:00 PM. On a clear night in a suburban setting, a woman and her daughters, 12 and 18, noticed colored lights as they left a store and drove home, where they apparently observed the object pass over their home. They described a reflective silver domed disc with the center of the disc domed downward. Red and red-orange lights were flashing on or near the rim. It’s size was estimated as larger than their house, its lowest altitude at 500 feet or less, and its nearest distance between 100-500 feet away [but I would assume at the point the object passed over the house, it was then overhead relative to the dog—jw]. The object disappeared when they went inside to get their father, who would not wake up. (MUFON UFO DATABASE, Portion of Reports from the Files at MUFON Headquarters, July 1999, Sequin TX, CD-ROM, Case Log #930104E by Raymond Gurczenski). Aug. 8, 1981; San Jose, CA
A teardrop shaped UFO with a spinning ring paced an
airplane
off its left wing over San Jose, California on this
day. Instruments
onboard the plane experienced failures, but the
effects ended when the
object departed upwards. The aircraft briefly
disappeared from FAA
radar during the encounter. (Source: Richard H. Hall,
MUFON UFO
Journal, February 1984, p. 14).
Aug.10, 1981; Apple Valley, MN
3:30 AM. Russell Matson and another man were
driving down a
road in Apple Valley when they sighted a hexagonal
object nearly
overhead, at perhaps a distance of 500 feet. It had
two green, two red,
and white lights on its corners. It was estimated to
be between 60 and
90 feet across. The object pivoted, making a 90 degree
turn while
stationary, then descended and approached the
witnesses. It made a soft
"whoosh" sound as the object passed, like gas escaping
from a propane
tank. (Sources: Northfield News, August 20, 1981; J.
Allen Hynek,
International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 13; John
F. Schuessler,
MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 3; UNICAT
database, case 35, citing
J. Allen Hynek).
August 16, 1981; Near Winnipeg, British Columbia,
Canada
Midnight, the witness was driving alone outside of
Winnipeg
when he saw a huge UFO gliding over the roadway. It had
a central core
from which were emanating long and slender filament-like
projections
that gave off an extremely bright, neon-like glow of a
luminous
red-orange color. The filaments were at least 50 ft in
length each and
numbered about two dozen, giving the object the
appearance of a
jellyfish with spikes. The "tentacles" were arrayed
equidistant from
another and formed a conical shape beneath the central
mass and an
inverted conical shape above it. The object then hovered
150 ft above a
farmer's field. The witness parked his vehicle then ran
towards the
object, which then glided majestically above the
roadway. Dimly
outlined from the glow inside the "windows" of the
central mass were
two or three figures, whose features were not
discernible, but whose
heads and shoulders indicated they were humanoid in
shape. The witness
waved at the object, which responded first with a flash
of red light
and then a green one from inside the hull. The object
then flew away.
(Right before this encounter the witness had heard an
"enchanting
melody of an unknown source over the radio). He has been
involved in
other encounters as well (HC addendum, Source: Chris
Rutkowski,
Abductions & Aliens What's really going on?).August 19, 1981; Franklin, OH
Daylight. The witness was driving along a highway when a
brilliant silvery object descended over her vehicle and
forced her to
pull off the side of the road. She was then taken
onboard by several
seven-foot tall humanoids and examined. She was able to
describe their
faces as having large slanted yellow eyes, no ears, long
thin noses,
pointed chins, and very thin lips. She was placed in a
room and saw
what appeared to be electronic equipment everywhere. She
was given a
glass of greenish liquid to drink and later she awakened
back in her
car unharmed. (HC addition # 1093, Source: Brad Steiger,
The UFO
Abductors)Aug. 30, 1981; El Cajon, CA
UFO brightly illuminated car, witness badly frightened, memory loss. Fired pistol at object circling the car, fled at high speed. Red dots like puncture marks found on wrists (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section IV). Aug. 30 1981; near Alpine, CA
10:30 PM. A reserve police officer was driving near
town when
he encountered a huge dark disc shaped object hovering
15 feet above
the roadway. The witness vehicle suddenly stopped on
its own accord.
There was a bright flash, then moments later two small
beings
approached and took him from his vehicle. He then
found himself back in
the vehicle 15 minutes later and saw the dark disc
rising rapidly,
shining a beam of white light towards the ground. The
witness fired
four shots at the object and then drove home at high
speed. Magnetic
cassette tapes in the witness vehicle were partially
erased. (HC
addition # 695, Source: Bob Gribble, Mufon UFO Journal
# 280) Type: GSept. 1981: Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England
Over several nights over 20 members of the public saw a
cigar
shaped UFO over the town of Todmorden in West Yorkshire.
On one of
those nights two uniformed police officers also saw the
object.
(Source: Daily Star 30/03/82, The 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS
POLICE REPORT 2006
by Detective Constable 1877 HESELTINE, British Transport
Police)Sept. 1981; Dusheti, Georgia (Russia)
In the evening the main witness was coming back from
school
when she saw a man pointing up to the sky. She looked
up to see a ball
shaped object about 3 meters in diameter slowly
descending over them.
The object stopped at about 5 meters above the pair.
It was described
as white in color with some visible figures on its
surface. One of the
figures was of a short man like being, the other a
rhombus and the
third what appeared to be a horse. After 15 minutes of
hovering the
object left. Later they saw a wedge shaped object
rising slowly over
the area. Others saw bright lights in the sky. (HC
addition # 3440,
Source:
GUFOA)Sept. 1981; Meinau Island, Bodensee, Germany
Midnight the witness was vacationing in the area and
had camped
on the south side of the lake. While he slept that
night a very loud
noise awakened him, looking out of the tent he saw a
bright sphere
descending rapidly overhead. Through an open port he
was briefly able
to see a humanoid figure apparently wearing a green
outfit. Then the
craft rapidly zigzagged away from area and vanished.
(HC addendum,
Source:
UFO Nachrichten # 279, In Project Becassine)Sept. 12, 1981; Trino Vercellese, Piemonte, Italy
After having a late dinner with some friends,
Mauricio
Cavallo decided to drive around Monferrato hill in
Trino Vercellese,
Piemonte, Italy. He parked his vehicle and proceeded
to explore on
foot. He soon saw a bright football-shaped light that
appeared to
descend into the thick woods. After checking where he
thought the light
had landed, and failing to find anything, he decided
to drive home. At
home he felt uneasy and could not sleep. Inexplicably,
around three
a.m. he decided to drive back to the site where the
light had come
down. When he arrived he was overcome by a strange
malaise, and soon
saw a reddish orange yellow light floating about 100
meters away.
Terrified, Cavallo felt himself being levitated up
towards the light.
His next recollection was of being inside a sphere
where he was able to
perceive numerous lights and movement around him. He
then heard a
metallic voice in his head tell him not to be afraid.
Soon a tall
woman, about 1.90 meters in height, appeared in front
of Cavallo. She
had black hair in a bun, Oriental shaped eyes, and she
lacked any
fingernails. She wore a long sleeveless habit with
white boots. Among
other things, the woman told Cavallo that she hailed
from the planet
Clarion and that her name was Ciama. (Source: Albert
S. Rosales,
Humanoid Contact Database 1981, citing Moreno
Tambellini, Alieni in
Italia).
Sept. 18, 1981; Conejo Valley, CA
Triangular objects with body lights, humming sound, observed three times over freeway and valley area (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section VI). Oct. 1981; Texas Gulf Coast
Local concentration of sightings (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section VIII). Oct. 8, 1981; Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada
Daylight disc photo (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section VII). Oct. 31, 1981; Marcos-Juarez, Argentina Two airliners report object. Nov. 1981; Hessdalen, Norway
Localized concentration began, continuing off and on for several years. Many structured object cases, photographs (January-February 1984). Nov. 8, 1981; Praglia, Italy
3:00 PM. Six boys were racing dirt bikes near a lake
when one of them
fell and hit his head. Two of the other boys went to
assist him, when
suddenly a bright green light was seen descending over
the surface of
the lake. Inside the light appeared to be a gray
metallic oval shaped
craft that descended on telescopic like legs near the
witnesses. A door
became visible on the craft and a tall human like figure
then appeared,
his arms seemed to be extended up into the air. It wore
a loose fitting
silvery outfit, its arms were very long, and its feet
resembled oval
appendages. The being seemed to have no neck and a
triangular shaped
head with normal looking eyes. The being proceeded to
walk towards the
lake and then apparently was able to walk on the surface
of the water.
Moments later he returned back into the object, which
took off at high
speed disturbing the water on the lake. (HC addition #
1523, Source:
Mauricio Verga, ITACAT)Nov. 9, 1981; Esengul, Karasu Region, Kazakhstan
A large boat shaped, green colored UFO with an open cab
or
hatch fell into Lake Zaysan. Four humanoid wearing the
same color green
coveralls were apparently inside. Apparently the craft
and its
occupants were damaged upon impact. Local residents
found fragments and
called the local militia. Inspectors from the KGB
arrived from Alma
Alta. Fragments of the UFO and body parts of the
humanoids were taken
to Moscow and hidden on an underground
bunker-laboratory. The remaining
bodies were concealed and buried in the area. Local
residents were told
that a foreign spy aircraft had crashed and ordered to
forget
everything. (HC addendum, Source: Anton "Cade" Belousov,
Soviet X
Files list, High Strangeness Index: 8, Reliability of
Source: 8)Nov. 21, 1981; west of Naveksvarn, Sweden
Mid-afternoon. An eight-meter wide red disc, giving off
a weak blue
glow, flew at treetop level west of Naveksvarn, Sweden
towards the
east. Photographs were taken. (Source: AFU Sweden).Nov. 24, 1981; Marshall, near Darco, TX 9:30 PM. Dale Spurlock saw a red pulsating domed
disc at
treetop level while driving near Darco. It was seen
near a small lake
and some power lines, and had four colored lights--a
row of red, blue,
green, and amber lights--at the base of the dome. It
made no sound as
it passed left to right just above the tress, and then
hovered. The
object tilted, and two headlights from the front of
the UFO shown
directly down on his pickup truck. The object was
revolving
counterclockwise, and left toward the east. The
truck's electrical
system (alternator and battery) was damaged. (Sources:
John Combest,
International UFO Reporter, May 1982, p. 5; Richard H.
Hall, MUFON UFO
Journal, February 1984, p. 14; UNICAT database case #
027, citing John
Combest; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:
A Thirty-Year
Report, pp. 205, 374 & 383).
Nov. (end),1981; Fuenlabrada, Spain
1:30 AM. The witness, Magdalena Sobrino, was out in her
yard
hanging clothing when she noticed a bright light
approaching over the
nearby Coca-Cola factory. The light became bigger as it
approached her
position. It came closer without emitting any noise
until the witness
was able to notice what appeared to be a transparent
cabin-like
section. Inside the cabin she could see two figures,
human in shape
that wore gray colored tight-fitting coveralls. They
appeared to be
tall, about 2 meters in height and thin. They appeared
to be standing
up with their arms outstretched to the front apparently
operating some
type of equipment. Stunned she watched the craft fly
silently behind a
nearby building and out of sight. (HC addendum, Source:
Ciudad
Futura.com, Type: A)Dec. 1, 1981; Hessdalen Valley, Norway
On this night a bullet-shaped object, a sphere, and
several
nocturnal lights were sighted flying to the north over
Hessdalen
Valley, Norway toward Trondheim. According to John
Spencer, this report
was the first of a four-year wave of reports from the
Hessdalen Valley.
(Source: John Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 143).
Dec. 4, 1981; Hartford, CT 7:10 PM. Two groups of witnesses about twenty miles east of Hartford, CT, saw strange lights or objects travel at a rather slow speed from east to west along a path north of the witnesses. Known as The Case of the Flying Christmas Tree. (Complete report by Bruce Maccabee). (On Dec. 22, 1989 there was a similar event at Vernon, IN) Dec. 8, 1981; south of Reserve, NM
7:30 PM. An enormous UFO shaped like an orange
ball, and
estimated to be 750 feet in length, made a number
of turns in the sky
south of Reserve, New Mexico and then executed a
ninety-degree turn near
Luna Mountain. The five witnesses said they saw a
jet aircraft chase
the UFO out of sight. (Source: International UFO
Reporter, June 1982,
p. 15).
Dec. 15, 1981; San Luis Del Palmar, Argentina
3:30 AM. A 42-year old Ruben Meneses was driving a
dump truck
on a dirt road. Suddenly he observes a bright object
that approaches
the truck, the truck begins to vibrate, and he is
filled with a
tingling sensation all over the body. He was not able
to move as the
truck rises up in the air and apparently becomes
transparent. Meneses
apparently then passes out. Later he wakes up at a
location about 55
miles from where he was, originally. He does not
remember how he got
there. Later under hypnotic regression he remembered
being taken inside
a room with mirror like walls, he was made to lie down
on a cot-like
bed. He saw three short thin humanoids with dark gray
skin, extremely
long arms and thick wrinkles on his forehead. The
little beings
communicated with Meneses by using telepathy. His next
recall was of
sitting confused in his truck. (HC addition # 3461,
Source: Eduardo
Alfredo Lopez, Type: G)Dec. 17, 1981; Bladenboro, NC
2:40 AM. Daniel Edwards was awakened by the furious
barking of
his dog towards a pine forest behind his house. He
walked out of the
house and was startled to see a huge fire like light,
illuminating a
mass clump of trees a few hundred yards away.
Believing that it was a
forest fire he ran towards the area and alerted the
rest of the family.
As he reached the area, he came upon an opening in the
trees, there he
saw a large black disc shaped object with hundreds of
small red lights
rotating in the center of the object, which was
slightly larger that a
bus. Several dark, shadowy figures were seen walking
around the object.
The terrified witness ran away from the area and was
able to see the
object slowly rising and leaving at high speed. (HC
addition # 2197,
Source:
UFO Journal May 1982, Type: C)Dec. 19, 1981; Areal, Brazil
Silo-shaped object swooped over vehicle, blocked road ahead of car. (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section XII). Dec. 29, 1981; Brooklyn MI
Evening. Two boys playing in a snow fort behind
their house
heard a humming sound then saw a lighted disc shaped
craft with red
lights shining on its top and multicolored lights on
the bottom fly
overhead and disappear from sight. Moments later as
the boys decided to
go and slide down a nearby hill they saw a four-foot
tall human like
figure float over a nearby fence and come towards
them. One of the boys
yelled at the figure and ran away, while the other
stood stunned
looking at it completely unable to move. The figure
continued its path
towards the boys and at one point bumped into a
clump of trees then
retraced its route. The boy that had been unable to
move finally was
released from his paralysis and joined his friend as
they ran towards
home, with the floating figure close behind them. As
the creature
reached the edge of the yard it stopped an opened a
diamond shaped red
area of its "face" apparently emitting a moaning
like sound, it then
began spinning emitting flashes of light from its
top and bottom. Its
head was described as small and round with green
colored wrinkled skin.
Originally one of the boys had seen a green "smog"
or "cloud" on top of
the hill and several "shapes" within it, one that
seemed to be wearing
a gas mask. (HC addition # 1169; Source: Dr. Ron
Westrum, Type: C)References: 1. Volume II, The UFO Evidence, A Thirty-Year Report - Richard Hall, 2000 2. CUFOS report, Rodeghier
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